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In conclusion, EPA finds that the 

evidence and information in this case 

does not support a determination that 

implementation of the RFS 

requirements during the time period at 

issue would severely harm the economy 

of a State, a region, or the United States. 

Dated: November 16, 2012. 

Lisa P. Jackson, 

Administrator. 

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[FRL–9752–2; Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD– 

2011–0051] 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment 

for Lead 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing the 

availability of a document titled, ‘‘Third 

External Review Draft Integrated 

Science Assessment for Lead’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–10/075C). The document was 

prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development as part of the review of the 

national ambient air quality standards 

(NAAQS) for lead (Pb). 

EPA is releasing this draft document 

to seek review by the Clean Air 

Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) 

and the public (meeting date and 

location to be specified in a separate 

Federal Register Notice). The draft 

document does not represent and 

should not be construed to represent 

any final EPA policy, viewpoint, or 

determination. EPA will consider any 

public comments submitted in response 

to this notice when revising the 

document. 

DATES: The public comment period 

begins, November 27, 2012, and ends 

January 28, 2013. Comments must be 

received on or before January 28, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: The ‘‘Third External Review 

Draft Integrated Science Assessment for 

Lead’’ will be available primarily via the 

Internet on the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment’s home page 

under the Recent Additions and 

Publications menus at http://

www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of 

CD–ROM or paper copies will be 

available. Contact Ms. Marieka Boyd by 

phone (919–541–0031), fax (919–541– 

5078), or email (boyd.marieka@epa.gov) 

to request either of these, and please 

provide your name, your mailing 

address, and the document title, ‘‘Third 

External Review Draft Integrated 

Science Assessment for Lead’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–10/075C) to facilitate processing 

of your request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information, contact Dr. Ellen 

Kirrane, NCEA; telephone: 919–541– 

1340; facsimile: 919–541–2985; or 

email: kirrane.ellen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Section 108 (a) of the Clean Air Act 

directs the Administrator to identify 

certain pollutants which, among other 

things, ‘‘cause or contribute to air 

pollution, which may reasonably be 

anticipated to endanger public health or 

welfare’’ and to issue air quality criteria 

for them. These air quality criteria are 

to ‘‘accurately reflect the latest scientific 

knowledge useful in indicating the kind 

and extent of all identifiable effects on 

public health or welfare, which may be 

expected from the presence of [a] 

pollutant in the ambient air * * *.’’ 

Under section 109 of the Act, EPA is 

then to establish national ambient air 

quality standards (NAAQS) for each 

pollutant for which EPA has issued 

criteria. Section 109 (d) of the Act 

subsequently requires periodic review 

and, if appropriate, revision of existing 

air quality criteria to reflect advances in 

scientific knowledge on the effects of 

the pollutant on public health or 

welfare. EPA is also to periodically 

review and, if appropriate, revise the 

NAAQS, based on the revised air quality 

criteria. 

Pb is one of six principal (or 

‘‘criteria’’) pollutants for which EPA has 

established NAAQS. Periodically, EPA 

reviews the scientific basis for these 

standards by preparing an Integrated 

Science Assessment (ISA) (formerly 

called an Air Quality Criteria 

Document). The ISA provides a concise 

review, synthesis, and evaluation of the 

most policy-relevant science to serve as 

a scientific foundation for the review of 

the NAAQS. The CASAC, an 

independent science advisory 

committee mandated by Section 109 (d) 

(2) of the Clean Air Act, is charged with 

independent scientific review of EPA’s 

air quality criteria. 

On February 26, 2010 (75 FR 8934), 

EPA formally initiated its current 

review of the air quality criteria for Pb, 

requesting the submission of recent 

scientific information on specified 

topics. Soon after, a science policy 

workshop was held to identify key 

policy issues and questions to frame the 

review of the Pb NAAQS (75 FR 20843). 

Drawing from the workshop 

discussions, a draft of EPA’s ‘‘Integrated 

Review Plan for the Lead National 

Ambient Air Quality Standards Review’’ 

(EPA/452/D–11–001) was developed 

and made available in March 2011 for 

public comment and was discussed by 

the CASAC via a publicly accessible 

teleconference consultation on May 5, 

2011 (76 FR 21346). The final IRP was 

released in December 2011 (76 FR 

76972) and is available at http://

www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pb/s

_pb_2010_pd.html. 

As part of the science assessment 

phase of the review, EPA held a 

workshop in December 2010 to discuss, 

with invited scientific experts, initial 

draft materials prepared in the 

development of the ISA (75 FR 69078). 

The first external review draft ISA for 

Pb was released on May 6, 2011 

(http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/isa/

recordisplay.cfm?deid=226323). The 

CASAC Pb Review Panel met at a public 

meeting on July 20, 2011, to review the 

draft ISA (76 FR 36120). Subsequently, 

on December 9, 2011, the CASAC Pb 

Review Panel provided a consensus 

letter for their review to the 

Administrator of the EPA (http://

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/

D3E2E8488025344D85257961006

8A8A1/$File/EPA-CASAC-12-002-

unsigned.pdf). The second external 

review draft ISA for Pb was released on 

February 2, 2012 (http://cfpub.epa.gov/ 

ncea/isa/recordisplay.cfm?deid=235331

#Download). The CASAC Pb Review 

Panel met at a public meeting on April 

10, 2012, to review the draft ISA (77 FR 

14783). Subsequently, on July 20, 2012, 

the CASAC Pb Review Panel provided 

a consensus letter for their review to the 

Administrator of the EPA (http://

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/

SABPRODUCT.NSF/13B1FD83815FA1

1885257A410064E0DC/$File/EPACASAC-12-005-unsigned.pdf). The third 

external review draft ISA for Pb will be 

discussed at a public meeting of the 

CASAC Pb Review Panel, and timely 

public comments received will be 

provided to the CASAC panel. A future 

Federal Register Notice will inform the 

public of the exact date and time of that 

CASAC meeting. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2011– 

0051 by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 


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• Mail: Office of Environmental 

Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 

28221T), U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. 

• Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744. 

Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

should be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. If you provide comments 

by mail or hand delivery, please submit 

three copies of the comments. For 

attachments, provide an index, number 

pages consecutively with the comments, 

and submit an unbound original and 

three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2011– 

0051. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

comment includes information claimed 

to be Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information through 

www.regulations.gov or email that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected. The www.regulations.gov 

Web site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ 

system, which means EPA will not 

know your identity or contact 

information unless you provide it in the 

body of your comment. If you send an 

email comment directly to EPA without 

going through www.regulations.gov, 

your email address will be 

automatically captured and included as 

part of the comment that is placed in the 

public docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the www.regulations.gov index. 

Although listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

e.g., CBI or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters 

Docket Center. 

Dated: September 28, 2012. 

Rebecca Clark, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

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Act; Communications Security, 

Reliability, and Interoperability Council 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of cancellation of 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: The meeting of the 

Communications Security, Reliability, 

and Interoperability Council (CSRIC III) 

scheduled for December 5, 2012, at 

Federal Communications Commission 

headquarters in Washington, DC, has 

been cancelled. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffery Goldthorp, Designated Federal 

Officer of the FCC’s CSRIC, (202) 418– 

1096 (voice) or jeffery.goldthorp@fcc.gov 

(email); or Lauren Kravetz, Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer of the FCC’s 

CSRIC, (202) 418–7944 (voice) or 

lauren.kravetz@fcc.gov (email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

CSRIC meeting scheduled for 

Wednesday, December 5, 2012, has been 

cancelled. CSRIC is scheduled to meet 

next on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at 

9 a.m. in the Commission Meeting Room 

of the Federal Communications 

Commission. Additional information 

regarding the CSRIC can be found at: 

http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/advisory/ 

csric/. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary. 

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Emergency Access Advisory 

Committee; Announcement of Date of 

Next Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

date of the Emergency Access Advisory 

Committee’s (Committee or EAAC) next 

meeting. At the December meeting, the 

agenda will include discussion of draft 

reports from the subcommittees and 

other activities needed to ensure access 

to 911 by individuals with disabilities. 

DATES: The Committee’s next meeting 

will take place on Friday, December 14, 

2012, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST), at 

the headquarters of the Federal 

Communications Commission (FCC). 

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications 

Commission, 445 12th Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20554, in the 

Commission Meeting Room. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cheryl King, Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau, (202) 

418–2284 (voice) or (202) 418–0416 

(TTY), email: Cheryl.King@fcc.gov and/ 

or Patrick Donovan, Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau, (202) 418– 

2413, email: Patrick.Donovan@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 7, 2010, in document DA 10– 

2318, Chairman Julius Genachowski 

announced the establishment and 

appointment of members and CoChairpersons of the EAAC, an advisory 

committee required by the Twenty-First 

Century Communications and Video 

Accessibility Act (CVAA), Public Law 

11–260, for the purpose of achieving 

equal access to emergency services by 

individuals with disabilities as part of 

our nation’s migration to a national 

Internet protocol-enabled emergency 

network, also known as the next 

generation 9–1–1 system (NG9–1–1). 

The purpose of the EAAC is to 

determine the most effective and 

efficient technologies and methods by 

which to enable access to Next 

Generation 911 (NG 9–1–1) emergency 

services by individuals with disabilities, 

and to make recommendations to the 

Commission on how to achieve those 


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